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Definitely going / out of contract Walters, Wells, Crouch, Ward (unfortunately) Offer new contract - 1 year - Bardsley Can go if we get a decent offer Hart & Lennon and to a lesser extent Brady and Defour Vydra, I'm not sure about, perhaps he needs a full pre-season? We would then need to sign a...

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At the end of the 1 day series last year in Cricket, the England players celebrated with Champagne while Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali just stood to the side away from it all just for that moment, then they joined in the celebrations afterwards. Not sure why they just can't do that?

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3-0 sheff Utd

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Step forward...Owen Coyle

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Actually lolling at all their big money signings they were giving it the big one with earlier in the season, have turned out to be massive flops.

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The VAR ruling out our goal is a worrying one. If I was reviewing it, I'd work out that Barnes was offside and in the line of the goalkeeper. HOWEVER the trajectory of the ball from Woods head should be taken into account, as there is NO chance he would have saved it if Barnes was there or if he was...

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Jesus Christ. Just watched it. HOW dodgy was Torquay’s equaliser? From a Crewe point of view that is. Never seen that goal before

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Soon summary he should have said “I can’t believe a linesman from 75 yards away had the temerity to see with his eyes, and allow the correct decision to be made”

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Apart from the obvious blip in the derby, he’s usually pretty good for us. Also remember Blackwell before the playoffs coming out in the media moaning that Dean never gives them anything. That backfired in the final. Then this week Colin does the same regarding refs in general. Probably the best ref...

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How can you not see that Gunnarsson pushes him in the back, and if you do see him push him over how can it be a pen? From my POV in the bob lord, the Gunnarson one was an obvious push by the Cardiff player. For some reason, motd never showed it from that angle. If he’d have given a pen for that I’d...

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I think we have a chance against them. Really hope Barnes sticks one on that Greek guy

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Brighton every day. Colin has always been a pantomime villain. Brighton’s fans are the worst

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it's taken longer to build these than both of our new stands in 1995/96!

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JBG, Defour are only on this list due to their injury records.

Brady to a lesser extent, but it might be worth letting him fully recover this summer as his was a bad injury.

I think one of the things we should have learned from this season, is that we can't afford to carry injury prone players.

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Keep at all costs:
McNeil
Westwood
Taylor (his improvement has been staggering)
Heaton & Pope

Like to keep
Tarky
Mee
Barnes
Wood

All the rest can be improved on, even with our limited budget

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Jarrod Bowen is a player we should try for. And hopefully a few gems from Europe

Che Adams would be a good buy.

We need to break the bank for a centre mid to play alongside Westwood, ideally someone with a physical presence.

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Garth Crooks does have the comedy value though. It’s an actual relief when Ince manages to finish a sentence

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Still pretty gobsmacked that our wage bill is so high, and at comparable levels to Brighton and Watford

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cricketfieldclarets wrote:Absolutely agree.

The prize is the goal of our labours.

Arte Et Labore.

stultus puer es!

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After reading 4 pages of this I’m seriously worried about the delusions of some of our so called ‘supporters’ Oh and as soon as you start talking about ‘the product on show’ you are a customer, not a fan, and definitely not a supporter. This premier league lark isn’t meant to be easy you know. Just ...

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Looking at Cardiff’s fixtures, they now play only one game (Chelsea at home) in a month, before playing us. Let’s hope they are undercooked by the time we play them. Then after that they have a fixture pile up. We really ballsed up not even getting a point from the Leicester game, as Cardiff would h...

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If you think the only reason we didn't win was because of a penalty decision, then you need to pay more attention at what's going on. Liverpool, struggling to beat Fulham - soft penalty - win Man City, struggling to beat a championship team, -soft penalty, offside goal - win Burnley, struggling to ...

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the lino on the Bob Lord has a lot to answer for, as from my viewpoint (which is a similar angle to his) you could definitely tell there was contact and he had been clipped. Watching the handball on motd, and it was very similar to the Southampton game. Why one is given and the other not, who knows?...

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you can hit the bar 5 times miss three open goals and have 0 shots on target or you could hit 5 long rangers straight at the keeper and have 5 shots on target.

We created enough to win the game, we just didn’t take them. The soft goals we are conceding is much more of an issue for me

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We have been pretty shafted with penalty decisions this season. Think Cardiff have had a few bad ones as well. What annoys me is that if that was at any of the big 6 at home, Oliver gives that every day, that’s what’s most annoying

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Few points. I wasn’t happy with a few things yesterday,mainly our laboured build up play and two abject performances from our front two. For the most part we did keep spreading the play trying to work the space, however the final ball was lacking. I’m not sure about this bizarre notion of 4 defender...

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asking for a friend

loosing

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Biggest difference this season is that we are letting in a lot of self inflicted goals at key times.

The Palace game last week and the game today pretty much all the goals were the culmination of not doing the basics right, which is worrying.

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Hmm 8 in a minibus which includes Westwood, who had a virus a few weeks ago. Could explain our lacklustre last couple of games maybe?

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jrgbfc wrote:That lucky win down at Cardiff is looking absolutely massive now!

Yeah and I remember all the flippant comments on the match thread as well.

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Got one of these a while back, brilliant for omelettes

https://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/wei ... ker-330750

Just leave for 8 mins and then peel them out, I'd definitely recommend

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Sausage wrote:That's a whopper of a cast from the OP.

Yeah, he's obviously on the wind up

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I thought it was hilarious to see Koscielny desperately trying to scramble the ball off the line as Aguero handles it in.

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The amount of transfers seems way down on previous seasons. Perhaps clubs are making a stand on crazy valuations?

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Batshuayi just gone to Palace

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The emergence of McNeill has been a major major boost at just the right time.

Plus Hendrick playing well wide right (I said we should try him there 18 months ago) and it’s not all bad.

If we get injuries to Barnes or Wood, we have the personnel to go 4-5-1.

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Funny game football. Currently feeling sick, with the gnawing feeling that we’ve blown another chance to win at Old Trafford.

BUT Cardiff are effectively 2 wins away from us now. Every point is vital.

Keep playing as we are and we’ll be fine.
5 unbeaten in the league

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Adrian Mariappa said: “People moan about Burnley’s style of play because they don't like playing against them – simple as that. “They have had great success, they were in Europe this year, so what they are doing is working. There is no right or wrong way to play football – it’s about winning game...

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jrgbfc wrote:Pretty much every signing carries some risk. Should we never sign anyone ever again in case it doesn't work out?

No, just saying that just because Cardiff have signed a striker for 18 million, doesn’t guarantee he’s going to tear it up. He may well be a good buy, time will tell

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How did Spurs play without Kane and Son?

Do we have a chance when we play them at home?

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Southampton paid 18 million for Gabbiadini, and that Spanish guy who was garbage. There are no guarantees

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I read something recently that 10 years ago Dortmund changed their strategy and spent a lot of their budget on scouting rather than transfers. And now they are top of the Bundesliga with an average age of 23 and raking in cash from player sales

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Looking back on it now, and how useless Coyle has been since. It was a minor miracle that we got promoted that season.

I see him on punditry shows now and almost feel sorry for him.

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Try going into display settings and change the levels for smooth motion or similar and try and switch between off and max

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Not got a problem with anyone wanting or supporting Brexit. But his “to hell with the rest of the world” comment is the ranting of a madman

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I thought Ward looked pretty fit at the Barnsley game considering he hadn't played for 3 months. I'd still have him over Taylor once he's 100%

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On our day we can beat anyone outside the top 6

We mullered West Ham, who by all accounts bossed Arsenal at the weekend

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You could have 5 shots on target all straight into the keepers hands. Or 5 shots off target all hitting the post

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Jarrod Bowen would be a good fit for us. Bet others are interested though

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At half time I thought we would win 3 or 4-1 as we were so dominant. However Fulham changed their shape to 3-5-2 and we struggled to cope. Mainly with having 2 inexperienced wide men on the pitch. Massive 3 points though Heaton 8 two vital saves and clean handling in very difficult conditions Bardsl...

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